The piece I created was an immersive installation called "world without sun". The title is named after an undersea documentary by Jacques mad in the 1950s It's a small room meant to be a fictional man's personal study, the kind that used to be popular with Irish men quite a while ago. Inside, everything is made to look old and slightly dishevelled. The wallpaper is purposely applied badly and darkened to replicate rising damp etc. There's a correspondence written between two men by typewriter on the wall dated from the 1950s, and a fictional Irish 1950s magazine cover with one of the men on it. The letters are about their failed attempts to get a huge hydroelectric project built in Ireland at the time.
The piece is about utopianism and changing views of the idea of the "future" or "the futuristic" through different eras, it's also about playing around with the idea of a concrete history and archives as much of the piece is falsified.
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